Opening Hardware Target Connections - 2025.2 English - UG908

The next step in opening a hardware target is connecting to the hardware server that is managing the connection to the hardware target. For instance, a hardware board containing a JTAG chain of one or more FPGAs or adaptive SoCs. You can do this in one of the following three ways:

• Use the Open Target selection under Hardware Manager in the Program and Debug section of the Vivado Flow Navigator to open new or recent hardware targets. See the following figure.
  
  
• Use the Open Target > Recent targets or Open Target > Open New Target selection on the green user assistance banner across the top of the Hardware Manager window to open recent or new hardware targets, respectively (see the following figure).
  
  
• Use Tcl commands to open a connection to a hardware target.
  Tip: Use the Auto Connect selection to automatically connect to a local hardware target.